Cactus Triggers not playing nice with 430EXII?

[e.rose]

Dude...cords are too old-school...too simple...too obvious...too direct a solution!! We need technology these days man, technology. Who wants blatantly obvious unit-to-unit-to unit cord connections when we can go "wireless" (fire-less????)??? I mean, the sheer reliability of a 10-meter PC synch cord is just...so...old-school....so "grandpa-like"...it's like being seen using a land-line phone, or actually baking your own bread....just sooooooooooo old-fashioned....so twentieth-century...

An impractical if you're using them in an event situation where people will trip on them while you're standing across the room, or hanging flashes off stage at a local band show that has poor stage lighting, which is why I bought triggers in the first place

And no, the 430EX doesn't have a sync socket... To whomever asked... I'm on mobile so I can't look back to see while typing a response.

 

[Big Mike]

And no, the 430EX doesn't have a sync socket...

$16.50 +shipping and it can.
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[12sndsgood]

shooting cars I don't want to deal with any cords myself.

 

[e.rose]

And no, the 430EX doesn't have a sync socket...

$16.50 +shipping and it can.
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I actually have one of those, from my previous setup, but for the most part, what I'm shooting requires me to move around, and around other people, so even if I wanted to tie in... it'd be kind of ... hazardous.

I might just have to deal with it for now, unless I learn some magic trick to get them to agree better. I'll just have to make sure that I always use my LumoPro as my main light when shooting OCF until I either figure something out for the 430EXII or can afford to buy better triggers that are agreeable with my 430EXII. :lmao:

 

[Dao]

I wonder if you can wrap around the flash with aluminum foil to help shielding the flash. Put the aluminum foil inside a ziplock bag and wrap the bag around the flash ( With the ziplock bag, the foil cannot touch any flash or camera metal contacts). It may or may not help. I do not mean put the flash inside the ziplock bag.